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message 1: by Dubhease (last edited Dec 18, 2024 11:07AM) (new)

Dubhease | 320 comments A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong - The Name of the Rose- February 3
A book with a pronoun in the title - The End of Her- February 16
A book with an X connection - Nothing More to Tell - March 3
A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs" - Henderson the Rain King - May 10
Bonus: the Book 24 on my TBR in the 4th month - The Canterville Ghost - April 1
A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream - Legends & Lattes - June 19
A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett - Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - July 1
A book set in Paris - The Purloined Letter - August 6
A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea - The Odyssey - August 27
A book with a number in the title - Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six - September 9
A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs - Not a Happy Family - October 12
A book to honour the 150th birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomery - Jane of Lantern Hill - November 16
A mystery (cozy or otherwise) - The Man in the Brown Suit - December 18


message 2: by Dubhease (last edited Dec 07, 2024 09:37AM) (new)

Dubhease | 320 comments Series

1. Dragons in the Waters - February 1
2. First Among Sequels - February 26
3. Mortal Coil - March 27
4. The Darkest Road - May 25
5. Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case/Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas - June 14
6. Brisingr - June 21
7. Heartfire - July 28
8. A House Like a Lotus - Sept. 6
9. Midnight Sun - Sept. 30
10. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing - Oct. 21
11. The Last Straw - Nov. 22
12. Dog Days - December 6


message 3: by Dubhease (last edited Nov 30, 2024 11:12AM) (new)

Dubhease | 320 comments Nobel

1. The Fisher Maiden - February 17
2. The Inheritors - May 14
3. In a Free State - July 7
4. Windows and Stones: Selected Poems - October 31
5. Gravel Heart - November 30

Bonus - Henderson the Rain King - May 10


message 4: by Dubhease (last edited Dec 04, 2024 08:02AM) (new)

Dubhease | 320 comments Mysteries/Thrillers

1. The House Across the Lake - Jan. 5
2. The Wife Between Us - Jan. 22
3. Meddling Kids - March 16
4. The Writing Retreat - March 30
5. The Westing Game - April 19
6. The Murder on the Links - June 8
7. A Death at the Party - June 22
8. The Birthday Girl - July 26
9. The Only One Left - August 2
10. One of Us Is Back - October 14
11. Wrong Place Wrong Time - October 27
12. The Chateau - November 9
13. Sometimes I Lie - December 4


message 6: by Dubhease (last edited Dec 01, 2024 02:24PM) (new)

Dubhease | 320 comments Reading Shakespeare
8/37 = 22%

COMEDIES
All's Well That Ends Well -2023
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice - Grade 9
Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 2017
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale -2017

HISTORIES
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John - 2008
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III

TRAGEDIES
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet - Grade 13
Julius Caesar - Grade 10
King Lear
Macbeth - Grade 11 and 12
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida


message 7: by Dubhease (last edited Nov 30, 2024 11:14AM) (new)

Dubhease | 320 comments Reading Nobel Laureates
25/117 = 21.3%

1901: Sully Prudhomme - Le Bonheur: Poeme (2022)
1902: Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Vol 1: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy (2023)
1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - The Fisher Maiden (2024)
1904: Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray
1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906: Giosuè Carducci
1907: Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book and Other Stories (2008)
1908: Rudolf Eucken
1909: Selma Lagerlöf
1910: Paul Heyse
1911: Maurice Maeterlinck
1912: Gerhart Hauptmann
1913: Rabindranath Tagore
1914 (Not awarded)
1915: Romain Rolland
1916: Verner von Heidenstam
1917: Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan
1918 (Not awarded)
1919: Carl Spitteler
1920: Knut Hamsun
1921: Anatole France - Penguin Island (2023)
1922: Jacinto Benavente
1923: W. B. Yeats
1924: Wladyslaw Reymont
1925: George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (Grade 12)
1926: Grazia Deledda
1927: Henri Bergson
1928: Sigrid Undset
1929: Thomas Mann
1930: Sinclair Lewis
1931: Erik Axel Karlfeld
1932: John Galsworthy
1933: Ivan Bunin
1934: Luigi Pirandello
1935 (Not awarded)
1936: Eugene O'Neill
1937: Roger Martin du Gard
1938: Pearl S. Buck
1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1940-1943 (Not awarded)
1944: Johannes V. Jensen - The Fall of the King (2023)
1945: Gabriela Mistral
1946: Hermann Hesse
1947: André Gide
1948: T. S. Eliot
1949: William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (Grade 13)
1950: Bertrand Russell
1951: Pär Lagerkvist
1952: François Mauriac
1953: Winston Churchill
1954: Ernest Hemingway
1955: Halldór Laxness
1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957: Albert Camus - L'Étranger (2018)
1958: Boris Pasternak - Dr. Zhivago (2023)
1959: Salvatore Quasimodo
1960: Saint-John Perse
1961: Ivo Andric
1962: John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men (2023)
1963: Giorgos Seferis
1964: Jean-Paul Sartre - Huis Clos (Grade 13)
1965: Mikhail Sholokhov
1966: Shmuel Yosef Agnon / Nelly Sachs
1967: Miguel Ángel Asturias
1968: Yasunari Kawabata
1969: Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot (2006)
1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (2022)
1971: Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (2023)
1972: Heinrich Böll
1973: Patrick White
1974: Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson
1975: Eugenio Montale
1976: Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King (2024)
1977: Vicente Aleixandre
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979: Odysseas Elytis
1980: Czeslaw Milosz
1981: Elias Canetti
1982: Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera (2020)
1983: William Golding - The Inheritors (2024)
1984: Jaroslav Seifert
1985: Claude Simon
1986: Wole Soyinka
1987: Joseph Brodsky
1988: Naguib Mahfouz
1989: Camilo José Cela
1990: Octavio Paz
1991: Nadine Gordimer
1992: Derek Walcott
1993: Toni Morrison - Beloved (2023)
1994: Kenzaburo Oe - Death by Water (2022)
1995: Seamus Heaney - Beowulf plus poems (2008)
1996: Wislawa Szymborska
1997: Dario Fo
1998: José Saramago
1999: Günter Grass
2000: Gao Xingjian
2001: V. S. Naipaul - In a Free State (2024)
2002: Imre Kertész
2003: J. M. Coetzee
2004: Elfriede Jelinek
2005: Harold Pinter
2006: Orhan Pamuk
2007: Doris Lessing
2008: J. M. G. Le Clézio
2009: Herta Müller
2010: Mario Vargas Llosa
2011: Tomas Tranströmer - Windows and Stones: Selected Poems (2024)
2012: Mo Yan
2013: Alice Munro
2014: Patrick Modiano
2015: Svetlana Alexievich
2016: Bob Dylan
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (2022)
2018: Olga Tokarczuk
2019: Peter Handke
2020: Louise Glück
2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah - Gravel Heart (2024)
2022: Annie Ernaux
2023: Jon Fosse
2024: Han Kang


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